It's Facebook Twitter IPO day! After months of SEC reviews and roadshows and profiteering, FB TWTR will finally take its place in the Nasdaq NYSE menagerie. Time to start digging up your backyard bullion stash, right? Wrong. For the average guy the Facebook IPO is strictly Like Fave, don't touch. »11/07/13 10:19am 11/07/13 10:19am

The Nasdaq stock market shut down trading today following a technical problem. The exact nature of the problem isn't known. Given the huge percentage of automated high-frequency trading that happens a technical glitch can be a huge problem. »8/22/13 1:09pm 8/22/13 1:09pm

The days of traders shouting orders on the New York Stock Exchange's floor may soon be over. A new breed of investing, known as High Frequency Trading, has taken hold of the equities market—one that relies on computerization and automation to exploit momentary price changes for an investor's financial gain. And where… »5/02/13 11:30am 5/02/13 11:30am

Knight Capital lost $440 million in a flash on Wednesday when newly installed trading software went haywire. That's nearly double the company's second quarter revenue, and could be enough to sink Knight for good. »8/02/12 3:20pm 8/02/12 3:20pm

If you've been too lazy to figure out the stock market or have been wary of fees and brokers that come with trading, you will love this: coming this summer, you'll be able to buy a company's stock directly on Facebook. It's like Likes but like uh, real. »4/19/12 2:01pm 4/19/12 2:01pm

On the heels of the iPhone 4S release, Apple's stock rose 3.3 percent today to close at $422 a share. The Cupertino company is now worth $391 billion, passing once again Exxon as the world's most valuable public company. »10/14/11 6:55pm 10/14/11 6:55pm

For the first time since 1996, IBM's market value now exceeds that of Microsoft. IBM jumped past Microsoft to become the world's second most valuable tech company behind #1 Apple. »9/30/11 3:12am 9/30/11 3:12am

If you own one of Apple's tablets and happen to follow the stock market, I can't imagine you'd ever need anything more than CNBC's Real Time for iPad, a luxuriously large version of the much-loved iPhone and iPod Touch app. »12/07/10 5:40pm 12/07/10 5:40pm

Turns out it was a tough decade for tech companies. First the bubble they helped create burst and took the rest of the economy down with them; now the credit markets have sunk them in return—with two notable exceptions. »12/31/09 2:00pm 12/31/09 2:00pm

It's understandable that Apple stock is doing well—they've had a very, very good year. But after a huge rally this morning, their stock it at its highest price ever. See, yesterday, something magical happened. »12/24/09 1:02pm 12/24/09 1:02pm

Google turned in another solid quarter yesterday, with free cash flow coming in at $2.5 billion. Think about it: that's a $10 billion run rate for a company that didn't exist ten years ago. »10/16/09 3:01pm 10/16/09 3:01pm